Headlines Memo

• The State Department investigates confiscation and sale by Fidel Castro of a work by Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorrolla.
• Tome Raiders: Rare book theft is sadly often easy to carry out, especially in smaller libraries and places such as monasteries.
• In a twist on the usual international cultural property spat, can plaintiffs collect damages from a county in the form of confiscating and selling cultural property? Read about a long-running case against Iran by victims of a suicide bombing.

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